Korg opsix, Smart Homes & Matter Explained | Christmas Tech Catch-Up

Ian Dixon and Garry Whittaker return for a TDL Show catch-up covering rescued smart displays, Home Assistant dashboards, local voice control, the E-mu Emax II sampler, Korg Radias videos, synth editors, studio tools and recent music projects. Garry shows how low-cost display hardware and old Meta Portal devices can be repurposed for Home Assistant, while Ian talks ...

Peter James Stevens from the ProSynth Network joins me for a vintage Yamaha synth chat, focusing on the Yamaha CS and SK analogue instrument range. We talk about the famous CS-80 and the wider CS family that often gets overlooked: CS-5, CS-10, CS-15, CS-30, CS-15D, CS-20M, CS-40M, CS-50, CS-60, CS-70M and the SK string/synth/organ instruments.

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Simone Owen from Future Perfect joins me for TDL Synth Chat 1048 to talk about songwriting, electronic music, synthpop influences, production workflow, live performance and the next Future Perfect album, Faultline.

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Ian Dixon is joined by Jimi Uno / James Hancox from Jimi Uno’s Pound Store Synth Emporium for a TDL Synth Chat about budget synths, overlooked classics and the joy of getting big sounds from unfashionable gear. The conversation covers how Jimi got into music, early encounters with DX7-era synths in music shops, the Kawai K1, Ensoniq and E-MU samplers, Alpha Junos, ...